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His house is on a narrow exposed outcrop by the coast, so Mr Miller headed to a friend who had a bunker at his house inland on the island.

“When they came out of the bunker, the house attached to the bunker had gone,” she said.

Somehow Mr Miller’s home has remained relatively unscathed.

But Savannah has been unable to speak to her dad since Tuesday. It was only thanks to a call from his friend on a satellite phone that she knows that he is ok.

“I haven’t had a text or call from him now for four days. He’s elderly and it’s very distressing. There are no phone lines. It’s always worse when you don’t know what’s going on. The main town has been taken out, the airport has been destroyed.

“When I spoke to my poor dad on Tuesday he was so frightened. He was trying to board up his house himself.

“People knew the storm was coming and have been stock piling food. But for those little islands in the hurricane’s path, how do they begin to rebuild. And for poorer people in vulnerable clapper board houses it has been really terrible.

“I’ve been watching what’s been going on in St Thomas, the main town, and seeing videos of roofs being torn off.

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Savannah said Hurricane Irma, one of the fiercest storms ever seen, is a warning about climate change.

“This has really taken on a whole new level of intensity. This is the most powerful storm ever. We need to start trying to educate our children on how to survive without electricity, and not to rely on our infrastructure. People have to become more self-sufficient.”